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MINUTES
WEDNESDAY Jan. 19, 2005
The White River Watchers would like to
extend a huge THANK YOU to
Ginny Evans who presented a check as a donation from Charity’s
Angels for $100.
Minutes: The minutes for the
meeting of Nov. 15, 2005 were accepted as written. There were no
minutes from the Dec. 20, 2004 meeting since no business was
conducted.
Treasurer’s Report: There was
$8,163.12 in the treasury.
Budget: A motion was made,
seconded and accepted to accept the 2005 budget as amended.
Committees:
- Budget: Helen Ween will head the budget
committee.
- Mini clean-ups: Alan Kilburn and Brad
childes will head this committee.
- Earth day: Kim Rodgers-Hatfield will head
this committee.
- Education: Sheryl Myers and Judy DeLury
will co-chair this committee.
- Water quality: No chair was determined
- Clean-up: No chair was determined.
- Fun day: Alan Kilburn and Jim will head
this committee
- Newsletter: Kim will continue to do the
newsletter.
Projects:
- Jerry Shelton will have a booth at the
home show and has invited us to help man the booth and set up a
display. A motion was made, seconded and passed to give Jerry
$25 toward the expense of the booth.
- It was voted to accept Crist Blassaros and
Bill Evans as board members.
- River Fest: Sheryl will head the
committee. Tentatively this is being planned in a manner
similar to the Jake’s Day format with stations for youth
involvement. This is to replace our presence at Jake’s day.
There will be a planning meeting in Feb. .
- We will have two major clean-ups in 2005
- September10,2005: We will clean the White
River from Raible Ave. to john’s place
- June 11, 2005: We will clean the White
River from Timberline to Mounds.
- The organization will encourage groups to
participate in the Adopt-a-River program.
- Conservation Day is Tuesday, Feb. 1,
2005. Registration is free. It is being hosted by the Nature
Conservancy.
There was a motion made, seconded and
accepted to adjourn.
After adjournment:
- Crist Blassaros gave a lesson on the
medicinal uses of Verbascum Thapsus (common
Mullein) from the Scrophuriaceae family which is the Snapdragon
family.
- Sheryl Myers spoke on the need for
individual political activism from the members of the White
River Watchers.
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